After drawing and stacking contours of a structure, which is identified in the serially sectioned images, three-dimensional
(3D) image can be made by surface reconstruction. Usually, software is composed for the surface
reconstruction. In order to compose the software, medical doctors have to acquire the help of computer engineers. So in
this research, surface reconstruction of stacked contours was tried by using commercial software. The purpose of this
research is to enable medical doctors to perform surface reconstruction to make 3D images by themselves. The materials
of this research were 996 anatomic images (1 mm intervals) of left lower limb, which were made by serial sectioning of a
cadaver. On the Adobe Photoshop, contours of 114 anatomic structures were drawn, which were exported to Adobe
Illustrator files. On the Maya, contours of each anatomic structure were stacked. On the Rhino, superoinferior lines were
drawn along all stacked contours to fill quadrangular surfaces between contours. On the Maya, the contours were deleted.
3D images of 114 anatomic structures were assembled with their original locations preserved. With the surface
reconstruction technique, developed in this research, medical doctors themselves could make 3D images of the serially
sectioned images such as CTs and MRIs.